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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: Ireland joined CERN as an Associate Member State on 22 October 2025. Irish researchers, entrepreneurs and educators are now able to access a broad range of opportunities at CERN. Among other benefits, Irish businesses will now be eligible to compete for CERN contracts and Irish citizens will be eligible to apply for training programmes and staff positions of limited duration at CERN. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Revenue Commissioners (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: My Department has not made any tax settlements with the Revenue Commissioners in the past five years to date. My Department does not hold records relating to tax settlements made by the aegis bodies. Contact details for these bodies are set out below, should the Deputy wish to contact the aegis bodies directly with their query. Contact E-Mail Addresses for State Bodies under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: By way of background for the Deputy, Youthreach provides a two-year education and training pathway for young people who have left mainstream education with limited qualifications. The programme supports learners in gaining the skills, knowledge, and confidence to progress to further education, training, or employment. Certification is typically achieved at Levels 3 and 4 on the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The table below outlines the number of staff employed in my Department by grade for each year. The Department was established in July 2020 and at the end of Q4 2020, the total number of employees stood at 137. Please note that my Department does not hold full records for this initial period.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The information in respect of state bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the following table should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with this query. Contact E-Mail Addresses for State Bodies under the Remit of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Visa Applications (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: I am advised by my colleague, the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration that all non-EEA students pursuing relevant courses of education are legally required to be registered for Irish immigration residence permission under the Immigration Act, 2004. A visa, if required, allows for entry into the State. It does not grant residence permission. Such permission may be sought, or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: Higher education institutions are autonomous entities vested with statutory authority over their own governance and operational affairs, including the discretion to set their own postgraduate tuition fees. I understand that the higher education tuition fee payable by a postgraduate student can vary depending on a variety of factors including the type of course and the fee rates of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The Government remains firmly committed to apprenticeships and has significantly expanded opportunities for learners in recent years, recognising their vital role in equipping Ireland’s workforce with the skills needed to meet national priorities, including infrastructure delivery. In Budget 2026, I secured an additional €79 million investment in apprenticeship delivery - the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: In Budget 2026, I secured an additional €79 million investment for apprenticeship delivery, bringing total funding to over €410 million. This investment lays a strong foundation to achieve the target of 12,500 annual apprentice registrations by 2030 and supports national infrastructure priorities. Ireland’s apprenticeship system is demand-led and employer-driven,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2127 and 2128 together. As part of Budget 2026, I am allocating €23.5 million, to significantly expand training capacity in key health and social care professions. This investment will support the creation of over 1,100 additional course places across medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and allied health disciplines in 2025...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The €426 million investment under the Research, Innovation and Science Programme will give us the capability to deliver transformative investment in research and innovation, securing long-term returns for the Irish economy and society. It sits alongside the capital allocation of €4.55bn which I secured through the NDP process, over half of which will be allocated to research and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: As I have recently announced, University of Galway and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking have signed a hosting agreement, which will pave the way to the procurement of a national supercomputer. That will benefit users across a variety of sectors and disciplines. Healthcare, genomics, transport and weather forecasting are only some of the examples of sectors that have been critically advanced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to examine a funding stream to address the needs of the tertiary sector with regard to Research infrastructure. To this end, I established an expert Working Group earlier this year whose analysis and findings underpinned this element of his Department's submission to the recent review of the National Development Plan. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2134 and 2135 together. In general, for student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent students. A student may be assessed as an independent student (i.e. assessed without reference to parental income) if they have attained the age of 23 on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: Apprentices are employees and are registered by their employers in the Education and Training Board (ETB) region in which the employer is located, not on a county basis. This means the apprentice may not necessarily reside in or be originally from that region. In the case of employers based in north Kildare, the apprentices they employ are registered to Kildare Wicklow ETB (KWETB). In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: The total number of 2025/26 enrolments in further education across North Kildare is 1,991 as set out by programme category below: Programme Category Learner Enrolments Adult Literacy Groups 277 BTEI Groups 459 Bridging and Foundation Training 26 Community Education 106 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: This information requested specifically is not held by my Department in the format requested. The statistics on higher education enrolments are drawn from the Student Records System (SRS) of the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The most recent HEA available data shows that in 2024/2025 there were 12,460 students in higher education whose home county was registered as Kildare. This shows...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2139 and 2140 together. The most recent data available from the Higher Education Authority for the academic year 2024/2025 indicates that Maynooth University had a total enrolment of 15,560 students. Of these, 3,695 students were students starting their first year at the university (classified as 'New Entrants'). Both these figures show the increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: UCD Lyons Farm is a teaching and research facility operated by University College Dublin under the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences. It supports the work of the School of Agriculture and Food Science and the School of Veterinary Medicine. As such, it does not maintain separate enrolment figures, and students are enrolled through UCD rather than directly to Lyons Farm. UCD currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (4 Nov 2025)

James Lawless: In general, for student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent students. A student may be assessed as an independent student (i.e. assessed without reference to parental income) if they have attained the age of 23 on 1st January of the year of first entry or re-entry...